I'm home, but I should be at school.

Or at least I would be at school if I didn't get up at 4 AM and puke! Yes, it's true. After a 12 hour car-ride I'm sick. Well, let's start from the beginning. I only had one real meal yesterday, a McDonalds biscuit with egg. Not to bad, right? But then, I only ate snacks and not a whole lot of them! I felt a bit sckin the car but I felt worse when I tried to sleep when I got home (we were delayed by 3 HOURS at the border) so I puked. Gross huh? I'm hoping I feel well enough for school tomorrow!

p.s. On Saturday I saw HP 4 for th second time with Erin and er friends (Allison, Ivan and another guy whos name I can't recall). It was pretty fun!

A few little bits

Ok you guys, some of you might have noticed I updated my profile a bit, added a link and added descriptions to all of my links. I also changed the name of my blog and I recently (a few days ago) changed the web address of my blog. Big changes in store. Who knows, maybe even bigger ones when this blog celebrates it's one-year-anniversary *coughs*January 19th*cough cough*. Well I'l update when there's something worth updating about!
p.s. Scout it sitting on my feet again. I wish I had a dog. Even as I type this I realize that I miss Elmo so.
p.s. I messed around with Sheilas "inspirational" magnetic poetry magnets, here are some of my messages

Thanksgiving in Okemos: Part Deux, PLUS! Capatalist America at its best!

Thanksgiving was pretty much cool. We ate dinner around 2 o'clock and I had one helping of turkey, a bit of stuffing, too many helpings of cranberry sauce (my favorite Thanksgiving food)to count! After that the little ones (Noah, Ethan and Grace) went downstairs to watch the The Spongebob Squarepants Movie while mom, dad, Sheila, Erin and I watched Groundhogs Day. It's an ok movie but it gets to the point when you think "When will this movie ever end?". I can't even remember what Scott was doing!
Today I went shopping with Sheila, Erin, and mom at Target and a local yarn store. At Target we got six pairs of gloves (one striped pair and one white pair were for me, the others were "just to have") as well as a bright turquoise sweater.At the yarn shop I got some dark gray yarn for my knitted christmas presents (purple yarn is OK for girls but for boys, no) and some novelty yarn just because it was on sale. It's really pretty!

Then we went to Cosi for lunch. I got Ginger Chicken Sandwich. He put on too much sauce, that plus my pickiness mad it to much for me!
Once home I watched The Spongebob Squarepants Movie. Quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seen to date. Oh well. Anyway, Scott and Ethan are now at his (Ethans) basketball game and Erin's at The Nutcracker with her friends. Hold on, I have to help Grace print out The Backyardigans. Ok, I'm back, she has no patience whatsoever! I push the print button and she's all "MOMMY!!!!!!!!! IT'S NOT DOING ANYTHING!!!!!!!!" but she's three so I let it slip, kind of. Bye.
p.s. picture of the previously mentioned items will be added to this post(and the other posts I said I would add pictures to) once home, promise.
p.p.s. Scout is sitting on my feety right now, I love that dog...

Swimming and Scout

At the MAC(Michigan Althletic Club) I swam a few laps until I got cold and tthen just kind of hung out in the water, not much else to say about it. I got back from swimming a while ago and since then I have pretty mucch been hanging out with Scout, my relatives dog. She is the cutest little dog in th world!!! I'll post a picture when I get home or if I can find a connecter cord. She's a Daisy dog and that's a mix of Shi Tzu, poodle and some other breeds I can't remember.

Well anyway, she sat on my lap and we watched an AKC Dog Show on tv with mom, dad, and Erin. All we got to see was the final judging, and the toy and herding groups. My favorite (the Maltese) didn't win, some dog with a weird shaped head did! Oh well... I'm going to have the Thanksgiving feast soon so I'll report tomorrow afternoon. Arrividernci!

Thanksgiving in Okemos

Hi all! Happy Thanksgiving to you on this lovely ssnowy day. That's right, snow! It snowed for the entire drive to Michigan and it's real snow to! It's actually on the ground and not melting *gasps*. I just wanted to check in with you all. WAIT! An important new belletin has come in. My cousin Grace (she's four, my other Michigan cousins are Ethan, 6 AND Erin, 17) just screamed that we're going swimming today! That sounds like fun to me! Anyway, before I go I'll just say that soon I'll post a journal entry on my blog that was written while driving through Canada, a true international post! Aurevoir!

Swim Meet: Harvest Invitational

I just got back from the Harvest Invtaional meet at Ballston Spa High about two hours ago (a little more than that ) and I had an ok meet. Warm-ups were super hectic as usual. The pool was small so a lot of people per lane (the 11-12s on our team took up two lanes, mine had about 15 people) made the water choppy and difficult to swim in. We did a 300m choice swim (that means you swim all the strokes you swim in a meet over 12 lengths one 50m=two lengths) and then a bunch of 50s, kick down drill back. Then we had to start doing 25m choice-sprints. By that point my peanut-butter toast I had eaten only half an hour ago had caught up with me and I had to sit down.

Skipping a bit (it was a boring bit, don't worry) my first event was event three, the 100 IM (that's 25m Butterfly, then 2m Backstroke, 25m Breaststroke, 25m Freestyle), I was in heat one (I'm not good at this event!) in lane four. I had a good start (I always do) but faded by the end of the fly. Back and Free were fine and I thought I did a good job on the Breast but I got DQ'd (DQ'd=disqualified) because of my stupid left foot sticking out. My next event was the 50m free and I was in heat three, lane one. I was first until the turn but I lost time there and came in second :(. Then the 100m Free, I did OK on that but forgot to do flip-turns, oops! That's all folks!!!!

Non-Dance-age, Por Qué and my catch-prase

Hi all, I haven't written a title like that in a while, right? Anyway, it's just because there are lots of things to tell about. The first is just because I'm not going to the dance tonight because Kate isn't. Sounds weird but I don't think a lot of people are going. If any of my friends who read this are going I hope they have (or had) fun. I've also recently adopted a catch-phrase, much to the amusement of Kate and Alex, it's "Aye aye captain!." I used it on a lunch moniter once and it was hysterical.

More hysterical things ensued in advocacy today. Alex proved to his friends off and on that I can't contain my own laughter. HOW PATHETIC AM I? Don't answer that. Anyway, he's just like "Por Qué Emily" and I burst out laughing. Since my hair has faded out a little my face turned the same color as my hair! Funny for him, weird for me. That's all folks!

p.s. That didn't end up amounting to much, did it?

I'm LiveJournal copier and I know it *clap clap*

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want, either good or bad.

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Today in all it's crap...

Ok, today in an overall sense, sucked. It really did. At lunch, I was having an ok time. Clare came over and told me "Eric sends his best regards" and that the people at his table (Alex, Zach, Lucas, and other people I don't remember) put him up to say it. Since I know Alex loves to taunt me with my past a went over there and I was mad. Alex was walking in my general direction and he's like "Oh god, she's coming!" and he runs away, kind of. I run after him and I grab himby the back of his shirt and smash hm in to the table. I don't think I hurt him at all (isn't that great, when I try to hurt, I fail and when I don't I do) because when he came over to my table, his merry band of nerds (aka his posse) in tow, he said "We all laughed until we cried." Then Michael comes over and tells me Eric called me a ho. I ask, turns out he didn't. I kick Micahael, Eric's like "I've wanted someone to do that all my life" and I think 1) you've for like a year and a half and 2) don't try to be like myfriend, I'm currently pissed at you!. Then Alex tells me that Eric didn't say that, he said something else but if he told me, I'd want to kill Eric. He told Kate, she told me (with his ok surprisingly) and I do. He will hurt tomorrow.

Other sucky crap today was I had to walk home inthe rain with no jacket, a quilted vest and a short-sleeved t-shirt. WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME I WOULD RAIN?????? Plus, Alex got a ride home from Zach. Clay, Alli and Nick are sick and Kate's baby sitter is evil so there were no ride possibilities. And to top it all off I just interrupted withmy 5th phone-call in two hours!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M SO ANNOYED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bye.

My new survey

Hi all. I've deceided to conduct a survey in order to find out what the public thinks about hand writing. I asked 4 friends (two girls, two boys) to write "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy gray dog." in my journal (the picture is a scan from my journal). Some of them interpreted it diffrently as you can see but the message should still be clear. I want you, the general public to deceide which ones of the samples are girls writing and which one are boys. I'm hoping for 10-25 answers even though I might not get that many. The samples are #s 1-5 and inn a comment (or if you're reading this on SPS, a post) and say which numbers are boys or girls (for example, 6: BOY, 7: GIRL etc.). Note: I'd like to thank Senora Christou for triggering this little spurt of handwriting intrest, for it was her who said my handwriting (un-knowing it was mine) looked like a boys. GRACIAS!!!!!

Well, purple is the new blonde

Ok, you know how I said I was dying my hair right? Well it is 8-10 wash stuff but... IT'S PURPLE!!!!!! Here are some pics.
I fixed the picture MOM!

Mittens!!!!! Are you all happy now... good.

Swim-meets, mittens, and the color turquoise

A chart of swim meet events!

Event	200 IM	50 Back	50 Free	100 Back	200 Free Relay
Event #	1	5	21	25	29
Heat	1	1	2	1	1
Comments	This was hard, my first time! I couldn't finish and got DQ'ed!	I got a bad time (my normal time) 58 seconds	Easy peasy! I got 40 seconds(my best time).	I got tried! My events were so close together (except 5 and 21!)	We did ok. The girl beind me made up so much time!

Go starfish! By the way, isn't Starfish a dumb name for a swim team? They barely even move! PATHEIC!!!! At least we're not the "Ducks" like Charvales summer team, or the "Wild Turkeys" like Nisy's summer team! That one really takes the cake!
p.s. I finished my mittens yesterday, I'll post a picture!
p.p.s. I got the color of my braces changed, they're turquoise! I was reminded because I just cut the inside of my mouth@

Pictures of "All Hallows Eve"

That's what I'm showing you. UH-HUH!
These pics are of some pumpkins my mom, Noah and I carved (mom's is on it's own, mine is on the left of the second pic and my brother's is to the right of mine). Sorry about the weird quality of the second picture! This picture is of Nick (the Phantom), he came to my house (where we met at 6:30) first. Kate (Elphaba) came next). Then Nina(Football Player) and Clay(Bob Ross) bringing in the rear. No pictures of Alex because we met up with him on the road. CIAO!!!!

p.s. This is a picture of younger Trick-or-Treaters, my brother Noah (Bionicle called Toa Vakhma), Nina and Clay's little sister Sarah (Devil), and my cousin Jess(Diva). Bye, for real this time!

Halloween, briefed for my convenience

Yes, I have just gotten back from Trick-or-Treating (well, I acually just took a shower) with Kate (Elphaba/Wicked Witch of the West), Nick (Phantom of the Opera), Clay (Bob Ross, you know, the painter from PBS), Nina (Football Player, HIKE!), and Alex (Devil) who we joined around 6:30 methinks. Did you notice no parental-units were mentioned? That's because there were none (for the majority at least, Alex's brother Zack and his mom joined us in the last 10 minutes)! We got a lot of candy, even though I feel like we didn't visit many houses. Nick had this tiny little cauldron and he had to eat about 14 pieces of candy so it wouldn't over-flow! After we got back we hung out at my house for a little, we shed the outer layers of our costumes, drank cider, chilled in my room, good stuff. Alex and Zack had never been to my house before ( "Your room is messier than I thought it would be.") and Zack tried to steal money, that I admit was lying out, from me! A good time was had by all! Gudentag! (sp!)